Renaissance Scholar Heidi Brayman Hackel To Speak at Amherst College April 17

March 28, 2007 Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.—Renaissance scholar Heidi Brayman Hackel of Oregon State University will speak on “Dumb Eloquence: Chirology on the Shakespearean Stage” at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, in the Babbott Room in the Octagon at Amherst College. Sponsored by the English Department at Amherst College and the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund, the event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will follow.

Wednesday Night Shakespeare

A Wednesday eve to Webster did we come—Ten students, a professor and myself—To gather ‘round a table laid with teaAnd carrot cake. What play was it this week? They’d done MacBeth, and Romeo they chose For Valentine’s. So which tonight? Pray tell! The cake displayed our title in sweet script:The Merry Wives of Windsor. Comedy!(It’s one I’ve never read, and, so we learn,The only one that Shakespeare ever setIn modern England—his own time and place.)